Book on insurance out soon

Dr. Wimal Wickramasinghe, one-time Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of a small composite insurance company, has finalised a book entitled ‘Situation Essays’ on Insurance in Sri Lanka, consisting of 761 printed pages on B5 size (large size) with hard cover and is now in print.

This book on insurance in Sri Lanka is unarguably the most authoritative and comparative update (up to mid-October 2007) analysed against a theoretical and practical perspective. In other words, it is a comprehensive exposition of the insurance industry in Sri Lanka, the most material hitherto not covered or explored in any other text.

It covers diverse subjects on insurance in Sri Lanka: overall view of insurance business, life and general insurance business, insurance education, takaful or Islamic insurance, objective suggestions for amendment of the Insurance Act, corporate governance in insurance, microinsurance, implications of the proposed increase of capital in insurance companies, reinsurance of general insurance, SWOT analysis, Bancassurance (five chapters), and claims management examination of Insurance Law in Sri Lanka, investment in Asian Re, and insurance as a buyers’ market.

A copy priced at Rs. 1,300 would be released in December.